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This video is my contribution to the MiniVid Project,hence the curious title :)

I got the idea before I saw the anime Metropolis but when I watched it I was dissapointed because my original idea didn't fit :P I later ignored this fact and used the idea to mess around with Adobe After Effects.

This amv quite predicatbly combines the anime Metropolis with the 1926 silent movie that inspired it. The 1926 movie is better :D As for what the video means, I'll let you decide because if I say it might put you off watching the video ;)

The video takes a great deal of creative license with the Metropolis anime - it's probably better if you've only seen the Friz Lang movie or didn't really pay attention to the anime Metropolis when you watched it.

The lyrics are unconventional so I don't know how apparent the message will be straight away. I have edited this wonderful song down to just over 2 minutes from its original 3 minutes 45. but with good reason... the second verse about Ibiza and Norfolk just wouldn't have worked.

Anyway, this video is an experiment - it's no where near as good as I saw it in my head but when it came to edit, the footage wasn't quite right and my After Effects skill was decidedly novice. It was my first time, ok :)

Now enough comment, on with the notes...

Lyrics:

It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she's hooked to the silver screen
But the film is a saddening bore
For she's lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

Additional Notes:

In the video there is a brief scene where Duke Red is watching a scene from the Metropolis silent movie. Some text appears in his glasses that is both backwards and small so there's not much chance you'll have been able to read it. However, movie buffs may recognise the scene as it is where Freder is talking to his father about the terrible conditions he saw underground with the workers. Anyway, in objectin to his father's facism Frerder pleas

"It was their hands that built this city of ours, father"

That is what Duke Red is reading in the amv.

There is another scene that you can probably read but it isn't on long enough for reading, really. It says "And on it we will inscribe: Great is the world and its creator and great is man." - the "it" in question being the Tower of Babel which you then see. The biblical story is referred to in both the anime and the original movie.